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ABC News:
FBI Warns Ferguson Decision ‘Will Likely’ Lead to Violence By Extremists Protesters … As the nation waits to hear whether a Missouri police officer will face charges for killing unarmed teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., the FBI is warning law enforcement agencies across the country that the decision …
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Dana Ford / CNN:
Missouri governor declares state of emergency in Ferguson — (CNN) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon declared a state of emergency Monday ahead of an expected grand jury decision in the case of Michael Brown. — In his executive order, Nixon cited the “possibility of expanded unrest.”
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New York Magazine and Balloon Juice
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Governor Declares State Of Emergency Ahead Of Ferguson Grand Jury Decision — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon (D) declared a state of emergency Monday, preempting a grand jury decision in the Ferguson shooting of Michael Brown that is expected to be delivered any day.
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Governor Jay Nixon and Outside the Beltway
Ahiza Garcia / Talking Points Memo:
Supporters Of Ferguson Cop Plan 'Pants Up, Don't Loot' Billboard
New York Times:
In Ferguson, Tactics Set for Grand Jury Decision in Michael Brown Case
In Ferguson, Tactics Set for Grand Jury Decision in Michael Brown Case
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News, The Gateway Pundit, The Daily Caller and Capitol City Project
Amityshedd / CBS St. Louis:
Nixon Activates Missouri National Guard in Response to Potential ‘Period of Unrest’
Nixon Activates Missouri National Guard in Response to Potential ‘Period of Unrest’
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Matthew Yglesias / Vox:
The worst two paragraphs about American politics you'll read today — Ron Fournier, like many of us, is frustrated with the state of American politics. And like a moth driven to the flame, Ron Fournier knows that what's wrong is a lack of bipartisanship. — How else to explain …
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Ron Fournier / National Journal:
The Extraordinary Smallness of Washington — Institutional shrinkage marks the politics and governing of the Bush-Obama era. — President Obama is shrinking before our eyes. Squint and you might see his rivals running Congress: itsy-bitsy John Boehner and minute Mitch McConnell.
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Gawker, Daily Kos, The Incidental Economist, New York Times and BizPac Review
Marc A. Thiessen / Washington Post:
Thanks to Jonathan Gruber for revealing Obamacare deception
Thanks to Jonathan Gruber for revealing Obamacare deception
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Hot Air, American Spectator, Conservatives4Palin, naked capitalism and Betsy's Page
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Is This Bush Official Flip-Flopping on Obamacare? — Smellin' of Troy. — Shares — Jonathan Gruber's candid video commentaries have unleashed the latest in a never-ending round of conservative denunciations of Obamacare, the evilest, sneakiest, failing-est, and most unconstitutional assault of freedom ever.
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Bloomberg Politics and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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Robert Pear / New York Times:
Health Care Law Recasts Insurers As Obama Allies
Health Care Law Recasts Insurers As Obama Allies
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Prairie Weather, Hit & Run and Newsalert
Daily Mail:
SAUDI HUSBAND DIVORCES WIFE AFTER SHE FAILS TO REPLY TO HIS WHATSAPP TEXT MESSAGE — A Saudi husband has divorced his wife after she failed to reply to a WhatsApp text message. — The man, who got married two years ago, sent the message from his office and waited for a response from his wife.
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FOX News Radio
Kaci Hickox / Guardian:
Stop calling me ‘the Ebola nurse’ — I never had Ebola, and politicians who lie do nothing to protect your health — I never had Ebola. I never had symptoms of Ebola. I tested negative for Ebola the first night I stayed in New Jersey governor Chris Christie's private prison in Newark.
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Nicole Flatow / ThinkProgress:
California Tells Court It Can't Release Inmates Early Because It Would Lose Cheap Prison Labor — Out of California's years-long litigation over reducing the population of prisons deemed unconstitutionally overcrowded by the U.S. Supreme Court in 2010, another obstacle to addressing …
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Booman Tribune
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
As New Enrollment Period Starts, ACA Approval at 37% — Story Highlights — WASHINGTON, D.C. — As the Affordable Care Act's second open enrollment period begins, 37% of Americans say they approve of the law, one percentage point below the previous low in January.
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Lucy McCalmont / Politico:
Gallup: ‘New numerical low’ for Obamacare
Gallup: ‘New numerical low’ for Obamacare
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ThinkProgress, FOX News Radio, National Review, Washington Post and Daily Signal
Chris Moody / CNN:
How the GOP used Twitter to stretch election laws — Washington (CNN) — Republicans and outside groups used anonymous Twitter accounts to share internal polling data ahead of the midterm elections, CNN has learned, a practice that raises questions about whether they violated campaign finance laws that prohibit coordination.
Susan Page / USA Today:
Poll: Resistance to Obama order on immigration — WASHINGTON — President Obama's plan to sign an executive order on immigration, expected as early as this week, will meet more resistance than support, a new USA TODAY Poll finds. Close to half of those surveyed, 46%, say he should wait …
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Washington Times, Political Wire and The PJ Tatler
The Marshall Project:
Eric Holder on His Legacy, His Regrets, and His Feelings About the Death Penalty — Bill Keller and Tim Golden of The Marshall Project spoke with Holder in Brooklyn, where he was visiting a widely praised drug court. The transcript has been edited for length and clarity.
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The Daily Caller, Politico, Firedoglake and Mediaite
Philip Klein / Washington Examiner:
Obamacare repeal is more likely, and now GOP needs an alternative — CONGRESS OBAMACARE SUPREME COURT HEALTH CARE LAW MAGAZINE — This month, two developments have shaken the conventional wisdom that repealing President Obama's healthcare law is an impossibility.
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Don Surber and Newsalert
Dylan Scott / Talking Points Memo:
Why Hillary 2016 Thinks She Can Expand Obama's Electoral Map — The top minds in the proto-Hillary Clinton 2016 campaign infrastructure are already gaming out Electoral College scenarios. What they think they have is a candidate who could compete in a handful of traditionally red states …
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Washington Post and Hot Air
Su Wu / New York Times:
Jaden and Willow Smith on Prana Energy, Time and Why School is Overrated — One of the gifts of being young is that particular blend of self-confidence and self-consciousness. Jaden and Willow Smith have managed to turn this form of heady teenage introspection into expression instead of ennui.
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Washington Post:
Federal drug agents launch surprise inspections of NFL teams following games — Federal drug agents conducted surprise inspections of NFL team medical staffs on Sunday as part of an ongoing investigation into prescription drug abuse in the league. The Post's Sally Jenkins explains what happened and why.
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New York Times:
Iran Nuclear Pact Faces an Array of Opposing Forces — WASHINGTON — When President Obama wrote last month to Iran's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, urging him to overcome a decade of mistrust and negotiate a deal limiting Tehran's nuclear ambitions, it was perhaps the president's …
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Carol Morello / Washington Post:
Doubts about a nuclear deal with Iran as talks near deadline
Doubts about a nuclear deal with Iran as talks near deadline
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Power Line and NPR